Hurst has had his con­tract ter­mi­nated by mu­tual con­sent while Ny­dam re­turns to par­ent club Ip­swich Town.

McDiarmid Park man­ager Tommy Wright felt that 21-year-old Hurst needed to be play­ing more first team foot­ball.

He joined Saints from Stir­ling Al­bion back in 2015 and has since had loan spells with East Fife, For­far Ath­letic and Ber­wick Rangers.

Boss Wright wished Hurst well, say­ing: “I’d like to thank Greg for his hard work and en­deav­our dur­ing his time here.

“How­ever I feel that at this stage of his ca­reer he needs to be play­ing reg­u­lar first-team foot­ball.

“I’m sure Greg can achieve that with an­other club and we wish him all the best in the fu­ture.” Ny­dam, mean­while, has re­turned to the English Cham­pi­onship af­ter his loan spell in Perth.

The Zim­babwe-born Eng­land un­der-19 in­ter­na­tional joined in the sum­mer and went on to make five ap­pear­ances.

His only start came against Hiber­nian at the be­gin­ning of Novem­ber, a game Saints won 1-0 and one where Ny­dam struck the cross­bar.

“I’d like to thank Tris­tan for all of his hard work dur­ing his loan spell at the club,” Wright said. “Due to a lack of first-team op­por­tu­ni­ties we feel it’s best for him to re­turn to his par­ent club.

“Every­body at the club would like to wish Tris­tan all the very best for his ca­reer in the fu­ture.” Drey had worked up a great re­la­tion­ship with his team-mates

Wright is mobbed by Mur­ray David­son af­ter grab­bing a goal at the be­gin­ning of the sea­son